Field work in
Antarctica Nov 2013

While I was a
Fulbright Senior Scholar 2013-2014 to New Zealand, I did field work
in Antarctica. My hosts were Drs. Inga Smith and Pat Langhorne at
University of Otago, in Dunedin, NZ. Here I am holding a sea ice
core extracted from the snow-covered land-fast first-year sea ice
that I am standing on. Mt Erebus (3,794 m or 12,448 ft) on Ross
Island is directly behind the core. Location: Camp Haskell, Event
(project) K131 "Sea ice and Southern Ocean processes" camp, Haskell
Strait, McMurdo Sound, Antarctica. Date: 4 November 2013. Photograph
taken by Dr. Inga Smith, University of Otago and K131.

Public Outreach

For the past four years I have participated at the Polar Science
Weekend at the Seattle
Pacific Science Center. I showed posters on the greenhouse effect and
sea ice retreat and demonstrated the art of climate modeling with a
simple climate model I wrote for the weekend, see
photograph.
In 2009 I demonstrated the ice-albedo effect with a
spectrometer aimed at different surface types (designed by Bonnie
Light), see photograph with the "ocean" in front
of me.

The link at the left lets you
run the simple climate model I wrote for the Polar Science Weekend. You
can explore the climate sensitivity to
greenhouse gases, the solar constant, and ancient distributions of
continental landmasses. It is fun and easy to use.

A few more items just for fun

What is wrong with this picture?The image at
left was shown at the end of the Day After Tomorrow, a recent
blockbuster movie about climate change. Ice and snow on land cover
large areas of North America.